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Re: meaning of "Automatic date update in version.in" commits
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: binutils at sourceware dot org,Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>,Petr Ovtchenkov <ptr at void-ptr dot info>
- Cc: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>,Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>,Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu dot com>,Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at polymtl dot ca>,Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>,Matt Rice <ratmice at gmail dot com>,Fiodar Stryzhniou <fedor_qd at mail dot ru>,Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>,GDB <gdb at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 06:25:52 +0800
- Subject: Re: meaning of "Automatic date update in version.in" commits
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On September 22, 2017 2:49:31 PM GMT+08:00, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>On Sep 22 2017, Petr Ovtchenkov <ptr@void-ptr.info> wrote:
>
>> I.e. development process of kernel or glibc (ABI is important and
>"source
>> identification" important too, isn't it?) dispense of such technique,
>
>Unlike kernel and glibc, libbfd and libopcodes do not maintain ABI
>compatibility, and never will.
>
>> but binutils prefer to follow tradition from 1994 that was useful
>> for publicly inaccessible CVS repo + public tarball on FTP.
>
>bfd/version.h has been added in 2001, not 1994. It still works very
>well, no need to change anything that isn't broken.
>
>Andreas.
>
>--
>Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org
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>4ED5
>"And now for something completely different."
We should try not to update DATE in version.h if there is no change
otherwise. It can be done by remembering the last commit.
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